Ten Foot Cock and a Few Hundred Virgins

I want to thank our friend Sebastian for bringing this divinely inspired song to my attention. Seriously: this is the kind of overwhelmingly brilliant work of art that gives me hope for mankind and the universe. This song is a thousand times closer to the divine than any work of …

The Swiss Minarets

Swiss population: 7,739,100 Muslims in Switzerland: 4.3% Mosques: 150 Minarets: 4 And over this they passed their fascist anti-minaret law. But they have to preserve their Lebensraum, right? All those filthy foreigners destroying their pure Aryan culture… maybe they need to start learning from Bush and Obama, start building some …

Is Capitalism A Sin?

This just went out over Michael Moore’s mailing list. If you consider yourself a Christian, read it: For Those of You on Your Way to Church This Morning …a note from Michael Moore Sunday, October 4th, 2009 Friends, I’d like to have a word with those of you who call …

September 19th: A Day of Faith

Ahoy, me hearties! In honour o’ this holy day, let us all keep the one true God in our minds, and pray for world peace, socialism and delicious noodly booty for all. Arrrrrr! Let us fly the Jolly Roger and send them capitalist scallywags to Davy Jones’s locker, and let …

The Religion of Capitalism

Certain types of people – often, but far from always, libertarians – like to refer to socialism as a religion. Some academics are also into this, referring to it as having a “teleological conception of history.” This kind of thinking is right up there with “socialism is a nice idea, …

And a thought for the new year…

Note: This was originally going to be a short post, but as you can see it turned out rather long. It’s not a full and perfectly detailed scientifc/philosophical essay about this topic. Maybe one day I’ll actually write one of those – there’s certainly enough to say. But the main …